What is The Press Sphere?

Well…. That was a rather interesting blog. I will do my best to try to understand it as I go. Today articles and news stories are written to please the press, and that is all. What Jeff Jarvis wants to do is use a new model of creating news called the Press Sphere. This can, “thanks to links, add up a story and to fulfilling the need or desire for news and information.” The press is still involved, but there is a whole plethora of other sources as well, and readers can be directly involved in the process. What I find interesting and confusing about this is the amount of collaboration this seemingly requires. It gives the impression that stories would be created from a more numerable amount of sources and critics. While this could create very true and reliable news stories, it seems like it would be impractical in regards to time. How would stories be written so that their readers have the most current information when the story would have so many to things to take into account. People want timely news. If another paper writes a story 3 days before the paper employing this method which paper will get the most views? The faster one. Maybe it has to be a step by step process as we add more to the press sphere. We see in blogging that links and the viewers opinions are strongly taken into account. That is what has made blogging so popular in the last 9 years. It creates a community of people who comment on others blogs and respond to it. The New York Times online is using more links to cites sources used in there articles. It is obvious they are drawing from multiple sources, and they are not writing only form the press. The news articles take into consideration more than they would have in the past making them more accurate and interesting to read.

I welcome any criticism to this post. I did my best to understand, and I welcome any other clarifying opinions on the post. Thank you!